Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd .
2 The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club .
3 But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation
4 She would verbally attack her husband but the more she shouted the more he withdrew from confrontation .
5 The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself .
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